Computer help in edmonton

[geopod]

Who knows computers mine went down yesturday night at home.Call me 916-4456 if you know how to fix em.

george

[Beermaster]

What did you do Georgie?

[TheReefGeek]

Describe "went down"

[tcollin]

did it experience "sudden deceleration trauma"?


Dave

[geopod]

She froze up and I shut it down to restart it and when it booted back up it asked for the bootup disk so I instaled it then it asked for the Operating system cd so I installed that then it brought me to a screen sayi ng you have to format your drive c.So now this is all beyond me.I dont know anyone around to fix it.But I need it done asap.As this is the only computer for the house right now...Anyone wanna take a crack at it??

george

[TheReefGeek]

This will take a few hours min. to fix.

Hard drive might have gone, leaving no OS to boot from. This would mean a new hard drive, and re-installing the whole OS and drivers, etc.

Or this is just an OS issue, could be some corrupt files. Then you would need to backup your current drive to another computer (unless you have 2 drives, or a partition for your OS) and then format the drive, and re-install the whole OS and drivers, etc.

It could be motherboard related too, but less likely.

So unfortunately it is basically a whole night of diagnosing and fixing, at best.

This is the best I can tell from your info, it might be simpler and only be an hour to fix a small issue, but it is tough when it is the only machine because you dont have another one to test with.

[tcollin]

did you already format the drive? if you did, everything is gone. if you didn't, stuff may be recoverable. will phone.

[KrazyKuch]

Same kinda thing happened to me except for the fact that my hard drive is toast!!

[geopod]

So I hear my 1 yr olds hardrive is toated.gone to the dogs...caput..finish....no more...thanks for all those who have offered and helped me out here.

George

[TheReefGeek]

Check out www.memoryexpress.com for good prices on a new one.